While summer of 2021 isn’t, thank God, like summer 2020, it still isn’t the “normal” summer that I’m used to. And, this summer, schools around the country are focused on finding ways to re-engage families and students and addressing learning losses many children have sustained after nearly two school years of remote learning. For me, as a teacher and a…
Want Chicago’s Kids Back In-Person this Fall? We Must Talk to Families This Summer
CPS and individual schools must keep talking with families through the summer. Community visits and school-based meetings could reduce fears.
Black Homeschooling Parents Can Support Civil Rights in Public Schools. In Fact, They Already Did.
Black parents must continue to chart our children’s educational course ourselves.
Roseland Peace Parade on Saturday
At 1 p.m. this Saturday, Roses in Roseland will kick off its second annual Peace Parade. Registration begins at 11 a.m. at 119th and Michigan. From founder and community organizer Cleopatra Draper: Together, the people of Roseland and neighbors from all over Chicago will demand peace during the summer, promote common-sense gun reform, community investment and safety! Please join us for…
We Don’t Just Teach Our Students History; We Teach Them How To Make History
We are not critical race theorists. We are public school teachers. The push to “ban critical race theory” intends to stop us from teaching our students the truth about U.S. history in a classroom that welcomes all of who they are.
Golden Apple’s Alan Mather: Excellent Teaching Is Culturally Responsive
Golden Apple Foundation’s Alan Mather talks about how excellent teaching has evolved to meet the twin challenges of a global pandemic and a national reckoning on racism.
Compromise Elected School Board Bill Passes Illinois Senate; Must Return to House
In the last minutes of this year’s legislative session, Springfield took a big step toward creating an elected school board in Chicago.
Will the Elected School Board Bill Beat the Clock This Time?
The Illinois legislative session will wrap up very soon, and we don’t yet know whether the bill to create an elected school board in Chicago will come to a vote in the Illinois State Senate. According to yesterday’s Chicago Tribune, “Senate President Don Harmon of Oak Park indicated Wednesday that an elected school board proposal previously approved in the House would…